17th century
This sheet forms part of a seventeenth-century Dutch album, in its original binding, which contains 41 small, full-page drawings on parchment by more than 27 different artists.
11 x 15.2 cm (4 5/16 x 6 in.)
Possibly Pieter Spiering, Delft and The Hague. Private collection, United Kingdom, sold [private sale, via Sotheby's, London]; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1987 (Lugt 3306, without their mark), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 1999
Black chalk, with later graphite, on off-white antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown and gray wash, and oxidized white opaque watercolor, on cream antique laid paper; verso: red chalk and oxidized white opaque watercolor over graphite, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk or opaque watercolor with stray oil [?], with a framing line in black chalk, on light tan antique laid paper, perhaps prepared
17th centuryDutchOpaque and transparent watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper; double framing line in black ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, discolored to brown
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, black chalk on oiled antique laid paper, incised, framing line in black ink along right, top and bottom edges
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and red wash, over traces of black chalk, partially incised, on cream antique laid paper; traces of later restoration in white opaque watercolor; verso: black chalk and graphite
17th centuryDutchTransparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryDutchBrown ink over black chalk and touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash with touches of graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lilne in black ink, mounted overall to wove paper
17th centuryDutchGraphite on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite
17th centuryDutch